Player A is doing nothing but generating ISK. Without the market for ISK, he'd normally be spending it on deflating assets (i.e. ships, insurance, munitions). Instead, he's just earning, earning, earning.
Now, here comes player C. He sees what player A has done, and tries to get in on the act. Next month, they both earn 1.5 billion ISK. Player B is only interested in buying ISK from one of them. Since their choices are to sell, or not sell, how much more ISK will player B get for his RMT next month, and how much more unspent ISK will there be in the game world?
Perhaps you're unclear on the meaning of "inflationary"?
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Well, it's their fault. If they'd just lend us more money, we could afford to "pay" them more for their products, and then they could spend "our" money on cleaning up their processes.
OK, the real question: how many of those services run reliably, and on time?
If you want to hold up Japan, France, Germany or the Netherlands as models for good public transport, fine. But not Scotland, where it's all show and (literally) no go.
I lived in a rural Scottish town for a short while that had public transportation options that were lightyears better than anything I can get living in NJ
Cash cost, or the total energy cost of manufacturing, fitting and maintenance? Because the first can be skewed with grants (aka "I pay for your energy"), the second, not so much, no matter how much proponents of solar would like to pretend otherwise.
Are they really relying on the argument that the previous jury upheld their claims, when said verdict was overturned? Are they that dense, or is this desperation?
Yes, yes, and yes.
I'd go with yes, no and yes, but the result is much the same.
Because a Pentium class processor is so much more power efficient than the equivalent PPC.
What is this, Soviet Xanaduistan? If an x86 is a more cost effective purchase than a PPC, then the ongoing maintenance costs are some other schmuck's problem.
Electricity is a service. Pizza delivery is a service. The difference is that I'm not obliged to make a large capital outlay on Electricity Meter v2.0 or Doorbell v3.0 every year in order to continue paying for their service.
Y'all listening, Gabe? You're speaking the language of the salesman. We're games players. We want to play games, not subscribe to services.
Since Honda and Toyota are making huge losses as well, I have to call bullshit on that. The root cause was 20 years ago, but it's that the US auto industry is dead now because it has to continue paying the pensions and healthcare of all the people who made the crappy cars 20 years ago.
Only on Slashdot could a post that begins with an admission that the author can't even type properly, and then meanders off into speculation, supposition and baseless invective be rated "Informative".
Point taken, but y'all ever worked in the games industry? The leak is as likely to come from some pissed off dev or tester who's been "asked" to work another 90 hour uncompensated week because the publisher has moved the goalposts again.
Yes, all builds should be individually tagged and identifiable (with magic strings inside the main binary), and that should be built in to your build system from day one so that no build - whether internal or intended for demoing to the publisher or media - is ever anonymous.
But then again, the game should ship bug free, and should run at a minimum frame rate, and should meet all the requirements, and should...
If they win this lawsuit, they're setting a dangerous precedent
How so? The principle seems clear enough that any audit, in any industry, is only a snapshot; why would you think a court would change that principle in this case?
The article indicates that the system wasn't CISP compliant at the time of the breach, but presumably Merrick can only prevail if they can show that the non-compliant that allowed the breach was also in place at the time of the audit. Do you think otherwise? If so, what leads you the conclusion that the sky is about to fall?
Then create your own music. You don't need a license to do that (yet).
Perhaps you're confusing owning a physical representation of data with owning the rights to do whatever you want with those data. Obtaining and storing the data is trivial. It's the rights ownership issue that's pernicious.
The "power [of] the entire grid of North America" is insignificant compared to the output of thousands of Slashdot nerds scattering Cheetos everywhere as their sweaty, pudgy fingers hammer out "Only for a femtosecond FRIST POST!!!!"
Once the Gold Master has been shipped to Whang-Dong Fisheries, Automotive and Lowest Bidder Disc Pressing Incorporated, it's out of their hands. The final physical boxed copies ship to and sit around in local distribution centres and storerooms for weeks before the retail release date - there's plenty of opportunity for some minimum wage sleazebag to set that information free.
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Ehmmm, not really.
Player A is doing nothing but generating ISK. Without the market for ISK, he'd normally be spending it on deflating assets (i.e. ships, insurance, munitions). Instead, he's just earning, earning, earning.
Now, here comes player C. He sees what player A has done, and tries to get in on the act. Next month, they both earn 1.5 billion ISK. Player B is only interested in buying ISK from one of them. Since their choices are to sell, or not sell, how much more ISK will player B get for his RMT next month, and how much more unspent ISK will there be in the game world?
Perhaps you're unclear on the meaning of "inflationary"?
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Well, it's their fault. If they'd just lend us more money, we could afford to "pay" them more for their products, and then they could spend "our" money on cleaning up their processes.
OK, the real question: how many of those services run reliably, and on time?
If you want to hold up Japan, France, Germany or the Netherlands as models for good public transport, fine. But not Scotland, where it's all show and (literally) no go.
Like.. a bus stop to rival any other bus stop?
Pray tell, which "rural Scottish town" had these legendary public transport options?
Cash cost, or the total energy cost of manufacturing, fitting and maintenance? Because the first can be skewed with grants (aka "I pay for your energy"), the second, not so much, no matter how much proponents of solar would like to pretend otherwise.
You scoff, yet I'll wager my share options that those soulless weasels get a better hourly rate than you.
I'd go with yes, no and yes, but the result is much the same.
What is this, Soviet Xanaduistan? If an x86 is a more cost effective purchase than a PPC, then the ongoing maintenance costs are some other schmuck's problem.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Take it to the max, dude.
And yet, it spookily echoes the real world profits. Yeah, profits, I went there. I'm so all about the 1998.
You presuppose that Honda and Toyota aren't also equally fucked. All we have to go on are how the ass-rapings are aired in public.
That's jive. As any fool know, the earth be less than 10,000 years old.
Electricity is a service. Pizza delivery is a service. The difference is that I'm not obliged to make a large capital outlay on Electricity Meter v2.0 or Doorbell v3.0 every year in order to continue paying for their service.
Y'all listening, Gabe? You're speaking the language of the salesman. We're games players. We want to play games, not subscribe to services.
Since Honda and Toyota are making huge losses as well, I have to call bullshit on that. The root cause was 20 years ago, but it's that the US auto industry is dead now because it has to continue paying the pensions and healthcare of all the people who made the crappy cars 20 years ago.
A "fair use portion" of what?
The statute only deals with devices, not the use of those devices. As an aside, I doubt your device has any SCMS equivalent functionality. Mine doesn't.
The case law says "maybe". Do you live in the Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction? I don't.
Only on Slashdot could a post that begins with an admission that the author can't even type properly, and then meanders off into speculation, supposition and baseless invective be rated "Informative".
Point taken, but y'all ever worked in the games industry? The leak is as likely to come from some pissed off dev or tester who's been "asked" to work another 90 hour uncompensated week because the publisher has moved the goalposts again.
Yes, all builds should be individually tagged and identifiable (with magic strings inside the main binary), and that should be built in to your build system from day one so that no build - whether internal or intended for demoing to the publisher or media - is ever anonymous.
But then again, the game should ship bug free, and should run at a minimum frame rate, and should meet all the requirements, and should...
How so? The principle seems clear enough that any audit, in any industry, is only a snapshot; why would you think a court would change that principle in this case?
The article indicates that the system wasn't CISP compliant at the time of the breach, but presumably Merrick can only prevail if they can show that the non-compliant that allowed the breach was also in place at the time of the audit. Do you think otherwise? If so, what leads you the conclusion that the sky is about to fall?
Then create your own music. You don't need a license to do that (yet).
Perhaps you're confusing owning a physical representation of data with owning the rights to do whatever you want with those data. Obtaining and storing the data is trivial. It's the rights ownership issue that's pernicious.
I'd prefer Free source to a "free" game, but either would be good. A vague description of an algorithm in a commercial game... urgh. Slow news day.
The "power [of] the entire grid of North America" is insignificant compared to the output of thousands of Slashdot nerds scattering Cheetos everywhere as their sweaty, pudgy fingers hammer out "Only for a femtosecond FRIST POST!!!!"
You're seriously asking if people who want to "play" Little Computer People: 2009 have nothing better to do?
Once the Gold Master has been shipped to Whang-Dong Fisheries, Automotive and Lowest Bidder Disc Pressing Incorporated, it's out of their hands. The final physical boxed copies ship to and sit around in local distribution centres and storerooms for weeks before the retail release date - there's plenty of opportunity for some minimum wage sleazebag to set that information free.